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The Manner Of The Stories Brought Together In This Anthology

(Allen and Unwin, 7s. 6d.) charms even when the matter fails. Prolix, immature, they nevertheless provide a racy picture of • Elizabethan life which is unparalleled even in the......

Roman Satire By Professor J. Wight Duff

These eight lectures, on the origins and development of Roman satire, display all the grace of exposition and the weight of learning which has made Professor Wight Duff's......

How To Become A Babbitt, How To Make Grade On

Main Street, are the lessons of this friendly little manual of Pelmsnism (Watts, 5s.). It is an anatomy of "pep," a vade mecum for those who would make themselves tough-minded,......

Current Literature

It was courageous of Mr. Harvey to write his autobiography. He could so • easily have described the circumstances of his twenty-seven years of life - a novel, which might have......

The April Periodicals

Sir Archibald Sinclair discusses " Rearmament " dispassionately in the Contemporary. It is for us, he says, "an evil and dangerous but inescapable necessity," primarily "to......